Projects
There were several telescopes in various stages of design or construction by the late 1990s and early 2000s, but only some developed into construction projects.
- Funded construction
- GMT: Giant Magellan Telescope
- E-ELT: European Extremely Large Telescope
- TMT: Thirty Meter Telescope
- Projects
Some of these projects are completed, or merged into ongoing ELTs.
- GSMT: Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope, merged into TMT
- OWL: Overwhelmingly Large Telescope;passed over in favor of E-ELT
- VLOT: Very Large Optical Telescope, merged into TMT
- LAT: Large Atacama Telescope
- EURO50: European 50-metre Telescope;merged into the E-ELT.
- LPT: Large Petal Telescope
- JELT: Japanese ELT Project. Japan joined the TMT project in 2008.
- CELT: California Extremely Large Telescope; CELT became/merged into TMT project.
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